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Bastile Bastille
(n.)
A tower or an elevated work, used for the
defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
Bastile Bastille
(n.)
"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in
Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a
rhetorical name for a prison.